But the whole premise is that those paid professionals have gone rogue?

idle_zealot 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

There's really no fixing that kind of failure state with a bandage solution. The whole idea of a representative democracy is premised on citizens being able to elect representatives who represent their interests. If that's not holding then that's the part that needs to be fixed.

	▲	spwa4 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No the idea of representative democracy is that the representatives would still be of "better quality" than the population average, because it takes something to become one. This is done because there's no way the majority of citizens would vote to, say, responsibly manage debt.
	▲	coldtea 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'd say it's premised on the naivety of citizens to believe what they elect are representatives

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Yeul 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

A political party can table any motion they want and other political parties will vote against it. That is not going rogue it is doing your job.